Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-07-08
BILL NYE ANGLES AGAIN.
He Goes Out on the salt Water and
Tempts the Bounding Bass.


Fish may be divided into two great
classes. viz. /: fresh water fish and salt
water fish. Fresh water fish are caught
in fresh water and saltwater fish are
taken in salt water 1T is from this
that each derives his or her name. as
the case may be. Up to about the
middle Of this month the Goldfish is liza
BILE TO bite if imposed upon. He then
ceases to do SO until July. when he
again resumes. The cod when taken.
from the water. is not ready for market,
as had supposed, but is in very diff
ferent condition from that in which
we find him at the inland grocery
store.
Shortly after the cod is caught plain
men from the common walks Of life re-
move his works, after which he is salt
ed and pressed in large book like an
autumn leaf After this he enters the
home life of the American citizen and
fills the air full of redolence.
i went out fishing the other day with
parry of ladies and gentlemen on board
the Bay Ridge steamer. Between 1000
and 5000 sea bass were taken in few
hours off the Jersey coast. though,
strictly speaking. the bass were not
taken off the coast but out of the wet
The purser of the Bay Ridge, who is
very proud of his boat. said that she
lnnLs al lint or
as he liked to see her, because people
who caught fish mussed a boat up so.
Then every body felt ashamed of hav-
ing caught fish and Uttered up the
boat, except the author of these lines.
l was going to say that did not muss
up his boat with anything in the fish
line, but | did catch something out of
the bottom of the sea that the captain
said he would call fish if it would
make me feel any better.
About II o'clock A. NJ, as we were
standing off Sandy Hook and the pur-
veyor of beer on the main deck. while
in -steenth latitude and not far from
the First National Cholera Banks. |
had bite. With rare foresight | had
not only wrapped the cold and pulse
less features of the clam about my
hook in seductive manner, but | had
given it dash of red pepper and
a squirt of lemon juice, for fish are not
utterly without those finer feelings
which come to all of us, and l didn't
know but | would catch a mermaid.
Nothing would have pleased me more
than coming up Park row about
o'clock with a young and blithsome
mermaid hanging by a willow stringer
over my shoulder.
But it was something else that | got.
| called the attent on of everyone to the
fact that | had "A bite. This heightened
the effect when pulled to the surface
| of the water a spcckled. warty. red
eyed, feverish fancy. 1t was the kind
of curiosity that anybody can catch
without going out of New York Harbor,
if he will use the right kind of whisky.
Most everybody seemed pleased when
pulled the nightmare out of the wa
ter. 1t is singular how little it takes to
amuse some people.
was encored, but | could only bow
my thanks to the admring audience
that threw clans at me and seemed
real pleased. Everybody else seemed
to enjoy it better than did. That was
because everybody else didn't have to
reach down among the bronchi al tubes
of that marine toad and get the hook
out.
At first put my foot on him and
tried to secure the hook, but he felt so
queer under my foot and made such a
dsagreeable noise when | stood on
him that left the hook hanging in
the roof of his mouth and bought an
other one.
did not fish much more, though.
Once | tried to catch something by
batting nv hook with the eve Of a
Wall street man who was fishing just
below me. but did not succeed. Then,
as the ship began to roll, went inside
where | could be alone.
| | was alone about an hour, commu-
ming with myself and bringing up
things that | had forgotten. But will
not write out for The World a descrip-
ton of what was so closely identified
with myself, yet of so little interest to
the world at large. Every man has
concealed within himself much that he
does not show to his fellow man, but
sometimes think that a little trip on
the bosom of the billowy sea can do a
great deal towards breaking up our